1995 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1995 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – John Major

Events

January

1 January
* Fred West, the 53-year-old Gloucester builder charged with killing twelve women and children, is found to have hanged himself in his cell at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. He was due to go on trial this year, along with his 41-year-old wife Rosemary, who is charged with ten murders.
* South Korean industrial giant Daewoo announces plans to build a new car factory in the United Kingdom within the next few years, costing up to £350,000,000 and creating new jobs.
10 January – The British football transfer fee record is broken when Manchester United sign striker Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal valued at £7million.
20 January – The first MORI poll of 1995 shows that the Conservative Party have cut Labour's lead in the polls from 39 points to 29.
25 January – Footballer Eric Cantona, the French international forward, assaults a spectator after being sent off while playing for Manchester United against Crystal Palace in the FA Premier League.
27 January – Manchester United fine Eric Cantona £20,000 and announce that he will not play for the first team for the rest of the current football season. Cantona also faces assault charges, with a police investigation pending.

February

1 February – New domestic electrical appliances must be supplied with an appropriately fused pre-wired plug.
2 February – Tennis legend Fred Perry dies aged 85 in hospital in Melbourne, Australia, following a fall.
7 February – Rumbelows, the electrical goods retailer and former sponsors of the Football League Cup, closes its 311 stores with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs.
14 February – Sizewell B nuclear power station, the UK's only commercial pressurised water reactor power station, is first synchronised with the National Grid.
15 February
* The manufacturing sector has reported its biggest rise in employment since the Conservatives first came to power sixteen years earlier, although the national unemployment rate rose slightly in January, still being in excess 2.5 million – it has not been below this level for more than three years.
* The England football team's friendly match against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin is abandoned due to the behaviour of a small number of English fans, believed to be members of far-right activist groups.
16 February – Neil Kinnock, former Leader of the Labour Party, resigns from Parliament after twenty-five years to take up a new role as a European Commissioner, sparking a by-election in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales. Don Touhig retains the seat for Labour, with nearly 70% of the vote.
17 February – The famous MG sports car brand, not seen on a volume sports car since 1980, is revived when the Rover Group announces the new MGF sports car which will go on sale in September this year.
19 February – Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, the Conservative MP for Perth and Kinross, dies in office aged 61.
21 February – George Graham, who has won six major trophies including two league titles since becoming manager of Arsenal F.C. in 1986, is sacked over allegations that he accepted illegal payments from an agent when signing two players in 1992.
24 February – The Football Association bans Eric Cantona from football for eight months, meaning that he will not be able to play competitively until after 30 September, and fine him £10,000.
26 February – Barings Bank, the UK's oldest merchant bank, collapses following $1,400,000,000 of losses by rogue trader, Nick Leeson.
28 February – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first published in The Independent.

March

9 March – Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Northern Ireland for the first time since the IRA and Loyalist ceasefire which came into force last year.
20 March – The Queen arrives in Cape Town for the first royal visit to South Africa in nearly fifty years, following the first elections under universal suffrage there, which took place last year.
23 March – French Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona is sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court for his assault on a Crystal Palace fan two months ago. He remains free on bail pending an appeal against his sentence, but if this is unsuccessful he will be the first footballer to be jailed in Britain for an on-field offence. 39-year-old former Scotland winger Davie Cooper dies aged 39 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
31 March – Eric Cantona wins his appeal against his prison sentence, which is reduced to a 120-hour community service order.

April

1 April – South Korean carmaker Daewoo begins selling cars in the United Kingdom. It offers a two-model range, the Nexia and Espero, updated versions of the previous generation Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Cavalier.
8 April – British-born American national Nicholas Ingram, 31, is executed in Georgia for a murder committed in 1983.
16 April – PhONEday changes all telephone area dialing codes UK-wide.

May

4 May – The Conservative government's fortunes continue to decline as the local council elections see them in control of a mere eight councils, while Labour control 155 councils and the Liberal Democrats control 45. The Conservatives now have control of no councils in Wales or Scotland.
8 May – The fiftieth anniversary of VE Day is celebrated across Britain.
14 May – Blackburn Rovers become FA Premier League champions, earning them their first top division league title since 1914.
19 May – Geoffrey Dickens, the Conservative MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth, dies in office aged 63.
20 May – Everton win the FA Cup with a 1–0 win over Manchester United at Wembley Stadium.
21 May – United Kingdom BSE outbreak: First known death from variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, that of a 19-year-old man; not until 20 March 1996 does the Secretary of State for Health announce that vCJD is caused by eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
24 May – Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson dies of cancer in London, aged 79. On 6 June his funeral takes place at St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly, where he is laid to rest.
25 May – Roseanna Cunningham wins the Perth by-election for the Scottish National Party, three months after the seat became vacant upon the death of the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn. The Conservative majority has now fallen from 21 seats to 11, in the space of three years since the last general election.

June

9 June – Andrew Richards, a 26-year-old serial sex offender of West Glamorgan, becomes the first person to be convicted of male rape under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
14 June – Pauline Clare is appointed as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary, becoming the first woman to hold the office of Chief Constable.
20 June – Arsenal pay a British record fee of £7.5million for Inter Milan and Holland striker Dennis Bergkamp.
22 June – In an attempt to reassert his authority, John Major resigns as leader of the Conservative Party triggering a [1995 Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party leadership election|leadership election].
23 June – The latest MORI opinion poll shows that Conservative support has reached an 18-month high of 32%, but Labour still have a 22-point lead over them.
28 June–22 August – 1995 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave: The driest summer in recorded English meteorological history, with an average EWP series of only, and also the third-hottest with an average Central England temperature of.

July

3 July
* The British football transfer record fee is broken for the third time this year when Liverpool sign striker Stan Collymore from Nottingham Forest for £8.5million.
* Experimental launch of Mondex stored-value card in Swindon.
4 July – John Major wins the Conservative Party leadership election, gaining 218 votes to John Redwood's 89.
13 July – A memorial service is held for Harold Wilson in Westminster Abbey, attended by Prince Charles, John Major, and three other living former Prime Ministers.
19 July
* Pensions Act 1995 receives Royal Assent, proposing to phase in a state pension age for women at 65 over a ten-year period and introducing measures intended to safeguard occupational pension schemes.
* Unemployment is reported to be on the rise again, though the government denies that it is pointing towards another recession.
23 July – War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: British forces sent to Sarajevo to help relieve the Siege of Sarajevo.
27 July – The Conservative government's majority is slashed further, to nine seats, as the Liberal Democrats win the Littleborough and Saddleworth seat in Lancashire, two months after it was left vacant by the death of Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens.
30 July – A murder investigation is launched after two teenage boys, Robbie Gee and Paul Barker, are found dead near a lake in rural Cheshire. Police in North Wales begin a murder hunt after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook is found washed up on a beach near the Llandudno home of her grandparents, shortly after she disappeared while sleeping in a tent in the garden.
The Radio Authority gives permission to GWR Group to begin programme networking across many of its FM stations. This landmark ruling begins the move by commercial radio companies in the UK to replace locally produced shows with networking.

August

3 August – 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man Howard Hughes is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook, and remanded in custody.
6 August – Pubs in England are permitted to remain open throughout Sunday afternoon for the first time.
16 August – Unemployment is now at 2,315,300 – one of the lowest figures recorded in the last four years.
20 August – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, Europe's first traditional-style purpose-built Hindu temple, is inaugurated in Neasden.
26 August – Middlesbrough F.C. move into their new 30,000-seat Riverside Stadium, to replace Ayresome Park which had been their home since 1903. Their new stadium is the largest club stadium to be built in England since the 1920s.

September

2 September – Boxer Frank Bruno wins the WBC world heavyweight championship.
27 September – The BBC begins regular Digital Audio Broadcasting, from the Crystal Palace transmitting station.

October

2 October – Manchester band Oasis release their 2nd studio album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? which proves to be one of the most successful of all time.
7 October – Conservative MP Alan Howarth defects to Labour, cutting the government's majority to seven seats.
9 October – Former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home dies aged 92 at his home in Coldstream in the Scottish Borders.
16 October – Julie Goodyear, who joined the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as iconic character Bet Lynch in 1966 and had been a regular cast member since 1970, departs from the show.
18 October – Unemployment drops below 2.3 million for the first time since 1991.
20 October – Vauxhall unveils its new Vectra range of large family hatchbacks and saloons. The Vectra, which replaces the long-running Cavalier, will be built in Luton and from next year will also be sold as an estate.
22 October – Brilliant!, an exhibition by the Young British Artists group, opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
25 October – Singer Cliff Richard receives a knighthood.
31 October – The Duke of Northumberland dies aged 42 of a heart attack caused by drug abuse. He is succeeded by his younger brother.

November

16 November –
* Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 95, has a hip replacement operation. She is believed to be the oldest patient to undergo such surgery.
* Essex teenager Leah Betts dies in hospital four days after slipping into a coma due to taking an ecstasy tablet whilst drinking large amounts of water, sparking a media crusade, backed by Leah's father and stepmother, against the drug and those supplying it.
17 November
* Launch of the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory including a Long Wave Spectrometer built in the UK.
* The Today newspaper is discontinued after nine years in circulation.
20 November – "An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales" an episode of Panorama, is broadcast on BBC One in which Diana, Princess of Wales, is interviewed by Martin Bashir. She discusses her adultery, depression and bulimia, her children, the media and the future of the monarchy in candid detail. An estimated 22.78 million watch the broadcast, the all-time record for a UK current affairs programme.
22 November – Rose West is found guilty of murdering ten women and children, including her 16-year-old daughter Heather and seven-year-old stepdaughter Charmaine, after a trial at Winchester Crown Court. She is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that she is never released. Her husband Fred, who committed suicide on remand at the start of the year, is believed to have committed at least 12 murders since the mid-1960s.
24 November – The spy James Bond returns to U.K. cinemas six years after Licence to Kill, for the seventeenth film GoldenEye, with Irish actor Pierce Brosnan playing the part of Bond, filmed at the newly created Leavesden Studios.
28 November – Budget: Chancellor Kenneth Clarke cuts the basic level of income tax to 24p in the pound.
30 November – President of the United States Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland.

December

2 December – "Rogue trader" Nick Leeson is jailed for six-and-a-half years in Singapore on a double fraud charge relating to the recent financial collapse of Barings Bank.
8 December – Head teacher Philip Lawrence dies after being stabbed at the entrance of his school in Maida Vale, North London, where he was defending a pupil from a local teenage gang.
10 December – Joseph Rotblat wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
13 December – A riot takes place in Brixton, London.
20 December – The Queen writes to the Prince and Princess of Wales three years after their separation, urging them to divorce as soon as possible.
29 December – The Conservative majority now stands at a mere five seats following the defection of MP Emma Nicholson to the Liberal Democrats.
30 December – Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands matches the lowest temperature UK Weather Record at −27.2 °C.

Undated

Contingent fee litigation permitted in the Courts of England and Wales.
1% of the UK population now have internet access.

Publications

Martin Amis's novel The Information.
Iain Banks' novel Whit.
Pat Barker's novel The Ghost Road.
Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Maskerade.
Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights, first in the His Dark Materials trilogy.
Delia Smith's cookery Winter Collection.
Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play.

Births

January

January – Kane Haysman, footballer
1 January – Adam Campbell, footballer
5 January – Tom John, footballer
4 January – Adam Webster, footballer
7 January – Jessica Judd, runner
8 January
* Kyle Edmund, South Africa-born tennis player
* Stephen Hendrie, footballer
* Romello Nangle, footballer
13 January
* Steven Brisbane, footballer
* Eros Vlahos, actor
16 January – Sam Long, footballer
18 January – Tommy O'Sullivan, footballer
20 January – Calum Chambers, footballer
23 January – Clifford Newby-Harris, footballer
25 January – Joel Logan, footballer
26 January – Lewis Small, footballer
28 January – Mimi-Isabella Cesar, rhythmic gymnast
29 January – Germain Burton, cyclist
30 January – Jack Laugher, diver

February

1 February – Richard Wisker, actor
2 February – Paul Digby, footballer
6 February
* Jasper Johns, footballer
* Jack Shore, mixed martial artist
7 February
* Ashleigh Butler, dog trainer
* Tom Glynn-Carney, actor
10 February – Harry Finch, cricketer
11 February – Luke Humphries, darts player
12 February – Reece Hales, footballer
13 February
* Alex Mowatt, footballer
* Connor Waldon, footballer
* Craig Watson, footballer
18 February
* Mitchell Oxborrow, footballer
* Kimberley Reed, athlete
19 February
* Ryan Finnie, footballer
* Dylan McLaughlin, footballer
23 February – Rory Elrick, actor
24 February – Jacob Murphy, footballer
26 February – Liam Fairhurst, charity fundraiser

March

1 March – Danny Mullen, footballer
2 March – Joe Hanks, footballer
4 March – Bill Milner, actor
12 March – Forrayah Bass, footballer
20 March – Harry Lee, footballer
22 March – Dafydd Howells, rugby union player
27 March – Olivia Fergusson, footballer
29 March – Joshua Sinclair-Evans, actor
30 March – Tao Geoghegan Hart, road racing cyclist

April

9 April – Coll Donaldson, footballer
11 April – Siobhan Cattigan, rugby union player
12 April – Harry Middleton, footballer
14 April – Alan Frizzell, footballer
15 April – Nick Awford, footballer
16 April
*Poppy Lee Friar, actress
* Josh Meade, footballer
* Ross M. Stewart, footballer
17 April – Will Hughes, footballer
21 April – Josh Adams, rugby union player
23 April
*Callum O'Dowda, footballer
*Kelly Simm, gymnast
25 April – Lewis Hornby, footballer
30 April – Drey Wright, footballer

May

4 May – Alex Lawther, actor
5 May – Gen Kitchen, politician
9 May – Beth Mead, footballer
14 May – Fox Jackson-Keen, actor, dancer and singer
18 May – Craig Sibbald, footballer
20 May – Brandon Zibaka, footballer
24 May – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
25 May – Jamie Allen, footballer
30 May – Jonah Hauer-King, actor

June

June – Arran Fernandez, mathematician
1 June – Charlotte Jordan, actor
5 June
* Beckii Cruel, dancer and singer
* Ross Wilson, tennis player
8 June
*Bessie Cursons, actress
*Tom Grennan, singer
12 June – Hannah Starling, diver
16 June
* Jake Dennis, racing driver
* Oliver Lines, snooker player
17 June – Richie Fallows, squash player
20 June – Behzinga, YouTuber
22 June – Jack Lynch, footballer
23 June – Lauren Aquilina, singer–songwriter
29 June – Tyler Harvey, footballer
30 June – Declan John, footballer

July

5 July – Baily Cargill, footballer
7 July – Cameron Dawson, footballer
9 July – Georgie Henley, actress
12 July – Luke Shaw, footballer
15 July
* Matt Grimes, footballer
* Joseph N'Guessan, footballer
16 July – Kortney Hause, footballer
23 July – Faryl Smith, singer
26 July
* Holly Bodimeade, actress
* Darren Petrie, footballer
28 July – Ben Watton, actor

August

2 August – Vikkstar123, YouTuber
4 August – Chris Sutherland, footballer
5 August – Leo Chambers, footballer
11 August – Ben Davies, footballer
17 August – Alex Skeel, football coach and domestic violence survivor
22 August – Dua Lipa, singer and songwriter
23 August – Cameron Norrie, tennis player
24 August
* Cammy Smith, Scottish footballer
* Lady Amelia Windsor, fashion model and royal
29 August – Shaquille Hunter, footballer
31 August – Ceallach Spellman, actor

September

1 September – Dannielle Khan, cyclist
5 September – Dominic Sibley, cricketer
7 September – George Williams, footballer
10 September – Jack Grealish, footballer
13 September – Robbie Kay, actor
20 September
* Kirsty Howard, charity fundraiser
* Rob Holding, footballer
24 September – Conor McGrandles, footballer
26 September
* Chloe Burrows, media personality
* Hayley Jones, racing cyclist
27 September – Ryan Haynes, footballer
30 September – Harry Stott, actor

October

5 October – Diego De Girolamo, footballer
7 October – Dion Charles, footballer
12 October – Jordan Howe, athlete
28 October – Wesley Burns, footballer

November

1 November – Nick D'Aloisio, Australia-born entrepreneur, computer programmer and designer
6 November – Bradley Tarbuck, footballer
9 November – Finn Cole, actor
13 November – Lucy Fallon, actress
16 November – Rolando Aarons, footballer
22 November – Declan McDaid, footballer
28 November
* Emily Benham, mountain bike orienteering champion
* Libby Rees, author
29 November – Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, swimmer

December

2 December – Kalvin Phillips, footballer
4 December – Dina Asher-Smith, sprinter
7 December – Jaanai Gordon, footballer
8 December – Jordon Ibe, footballer
12 December – Mark O'Hara, footballer
16 December – Ryan Gauld, footballer
19 December – Elliot Evans, singer
27 December – Laurence Belcher, actor
30 December – Ollie Watkins, footballer

Full date unknown

Tex Jacks, actor
Joshua Pascoe, actor

Deaths

January

1 January – Fred West, serial killer
2 January – Henry Graham Sharp, figure skater
4 January – Robert Latham, editor and scholar
5 January – Somerset de Chair, author, politician and poet
7 January
* Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
* Larry Grayson, comedian and gameshow host
9 January – Peter Cook, comedy actor, satirist, writer and comedian
11 January
* John Gere, art historian
* Peter Pratt, opera singer
13 January
* Richard Causton, businessman and author on Buddhism
* David Looker, bobsledder
* Mervyn Stockwood, clergyman and former Bishop of Southwark
14 January
* Mark Finch, cinema promoter ; suicide
* Sir Alexander Gibson, conductor
* Stafford Somerfield, newspaper editor
17 January – Evadne Baker, actress
18 January – Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, industrialist
19 January – John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, peer and polo player
21 January – Kenneth Budd, mural artist
22 January
* Stuart Davies, aerospace engineer
* Christopher Palmer, composer
26 January
* Louis Heren, journalist
* Alaric Jacob, writer and journalist
29 January – Dickie Burnell, rower
30 January – Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter

February

1 February – Jill Phipps, animal rights activist ; crushed by lorry
2 February
* David Kindersley, typeface designer
* Fred Perry, tennis player and three times Wimbledon champion
* Donald Pleasence, actor
4 February
* David Alexander, singer
* Godfrey Brown, Olympic athlete
5 February
* Jimmy Allen, footballer and football manager
* Frank Costin, automotive engineer
* Frederick Riddle, violist
7 February – Helen Wallis, map curator at the British Museum
8 February – Rachel Thomas, Welsh actress
12 February – Robert Bolt, writer
14 February
* Roger de Grey, artist and president of the Royal Academy
* Nigel Finch, film director and filmmaker
15 February
* Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, peer, politician and newspaper proprietor
* Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, businessman, founder of Taylor Woodrow
17 February – Thelma Hulbert, artist
18 February – Denny Cordell, record producer
19 February – Nicholas Fairbairn, Scottish politician
22 February – Nicholas Pennell, actor
23 February
* James Herriot, veterinary surgeon and writer
* Norman Hunter, writer
25 February – Terence Weil, cellist
26 February – Jack Clayton, film director
28 February – Walter Allen, literary critic and novelist

March

2 March – Vivian MacKerrell, actor
5 March
* Marguerite Kelsey, artist's model
* Vivian Stanshall, singer-songwriter, musician and poet ; accidentally killed
7 March – Ivan Craig, Scottish actor
11 March
* James Scott-Hopkins, politician
* Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress
15 March – Fred Mulley, politician, lawyer and economist
16 March – Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Scottish peer and World War II Commando
17 March
* Donald Baverstock, television producer
* Ronnie Kray, jailed crime leader
18 March – Hugh Kelsey, writer on bridge
20 March – Sir James Kilfedder, Northern Irish politician
21 March – Robert Urquhart, actor
22 March – Peter Woods, journalist
23 March
* Alan Barton, singer ; accidentally killed
* Davie Cooper, footballer
24 March – Joseph Needham, biochemist, science historian and sinologist
25 March
* James Gardner, designer
* Stuart Milner-Barry, chess player and World War II codebreaker
29 March – John Terry, film financier

April

1 April – Lucie Rie, ceramicist
3 April – David Herbert, socialite and writer
4 April
* Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, peer and psychologist
* Kenny Everett, comic broadcast presenter
6 April – Trevor Park, lecturer and politician
7 April
* Peter Brinson, writer and lecturer on dance
* Nicholas Ingram, first British citizen to be executed by the electric chair in the United States
10 April – Glyn Jones, Welsh writer
12 April – Chris Pyne, jazz trombonist, brother of Mick Pyne
14 April – Michael Fordham, psychologist
16 April – Arthur English, actor and comedian
19 April – Neil Paterson, author
20 April – Bob Wyatt, former cricketer
21 April – Tessie O'Shea, singer and actress
26 April
* Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, lawyer and politician
* Peter Wright, scientist and MI5 intelligence officer
27 April – Albert Brown, cricketer and snooker player
28 April – Walter Tracy, type designer, typographer and writer
30 April – Michael Graham Cox, actor

May

2 May – Sir Michael Hordern, actor
5 May
* Alastair Pilkington, engineer and businessman, inventor of the float glass process
* Sir Anthony Wagner, herald and Clarenceux King of Arms
7 May
* Katharine Banham, psychologist
* Ray Buckton, trade unionist
10 May – Harold Berens, actor and comedian
11 May – John Phillips, actor
12 May – Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, lawyer and political advisor
14 May – Jessy Blackburn, aviation pioneer
15 May – Eric Porter, actor
16 May – Raymond Lyttleton, mathematician and theoretical astronomer
17 May – Geoffrey Dickens, politician
18 May – Robert Harris, actor
22 May – Robert Flemyng, actor
23 May
* Mick Pyne, jazz pianist, brother of Chris Pyne
* Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, peer
24 May – Harold Wilson, politician, Prime Minister
25 May – Jack Allen, actor
28 May
* Helen Ballard, horticulturalist
* Jean Muir, fashion designer
29 May – Sir Archibald Russell, aerospace engineer
30 May
* Ted Drake, footballer and football manager
* Lofty England, engineer and motor company manager
* Philip Sherrard, author and translator
31 May – Roy Beddington, painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist

June

1 June – Colin Ronan, author and science historian
3 June – Dilys Powell, film critic and travel writer
9 June – Frank Chacksfield, musician and orchestral conductor
10 June – Bruno Lawrence, British-born New Zealand actor
15 June – Charles Bennett, screenwriter
17 June – David Ennals, Baron Ennals, politician and human rights activist
18 June – Arthur Howard, actor
19 June
* Murray Dickie, opera singer
* Richard Pape, writer and World War II escapee
* Peter Townsend, RAF officer and lover of Princess Margaret
21 June – Tristan Jones, sailor and author
26 June – Edgar Williams, Army officer and historian
28 June – Donald Sinclair, veterinary surgeon ; suicide
29 June – Noel Dyson, actress

July

2 July
* Gervase Jackson-Stops, architectural historian and journalist
* Geraint Morgan, lawyer and politician
3 July – Bert Hardy, photographer
7 July – Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
8 July – Dorothy Stanley-Turner, racing driver
9 July – Vera Thomas, table tennis player
10 July – Sir Hugh Dundas, World War II fighter pilot and television executive
12 July
* Michael Clegg, naturalist and television presenter
* Gordon Flemyng, television and film director
* Sean Mayes, pianist and writer
* John Yudkin, psychologist and nutritionist
13 July
* Sir Varyl Begg, Royal Navy admiral
* Peter Morrison, politician
16 July – Stephen Spender, poet and writer
19 July
* Michael Andrews, artist
* Sydney Lipton, dance band leader
21 July – Elleston Trevor, novelist and playwright
22 July
* Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, Northern Irish soldier and politician
* Harold Larwood, fast bowler
24 July
* Jerry Lordan, singer-songwriter
* George Rodger, photojournalist
25 July – Janice Elliott, novelist and journalist
28 July – Susie Cooper, ceramicist
30 July – Harry L. Shorto, linguist

August

2 August – Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, diplomat
3 August
* Ida Lupino, actress and director
* Alan Mitchell, dendrologist
5 August – Mark Colton, racing driver ; killed while racing
6 August – Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, lawyer and politician
7 August
* Brigid Brophy, novelist
* Dursley McLinden, actor
10 August – Peter Williams, dance critic
11 August – Herbert Sumsion, organist
12 August – Raymond Sandover, British Brigadier who served in the Australian Army
13 August – Alison Hargreaves, mountain climber ; died while descending
15 August – Humphrey Moore, pacifist and journalist
17 August
* Marjorie Sykes, educator and peace activist
* David Warrilow, actor
19 August – Johnny Carey, footballer and football manager
21 August – Anatole Fistoulari, orchestral conductor
23 August – Arthur Holt, politician
24 August – Jason McRoy, mountain bike racer ; road accident
25 August – John Brunner, science fiction writer
27 August – Carl Giles, cartoonist
29 August – Harry Broadhurst, World War II air ace
31 August – David Farrar, actor

September

3 September – Mary Adshead, painter, illustrator and designer
5 September – Francis Showering, brewer, founder of Babycham
8 September – Peter Baxandall, audio engineer and electronics engineer
9 September – Ida Carroll, musician and composer
10 September – Derek Meddings, special effects designer
11 September – Kieth O'dor, motor racing driver ; killed while racing
12 September
* Jeremy Brett, actor
* Tom Helmore, actor
14 September – A. E. Wilder-Smith, organic chemist
16 September – Michael Balfour, historian and civil servant
17 September – Catherine Cobb, jeweller
18 September – Donald Davie, poet and literary critic
19 September – Sir Rudolf Peierls, physicist
20 September – Monica Maurice, industrialist
21 September – William Murray, educationist
25 September – Dave Bowen, footballer and football manager
26 September – Lynette Roberts, poet and novelist
28 September – Albert Johanneson, South African born, British based footballer
29 September
* Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, Orientalist
* Susan Fleetwood, actress
30 September – Frederick Warner, diplomat

October

1 October – Rene Cloke, artist
2 October – Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist and art teacher
5 October – Arthur Barbosa, artist
6 October – Anthony Newlands, actor
8 October
* John Cairncross, Scottish-born public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer
* Sir Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher
9 October – Alec Douglas-Home, politician, Prime Minister
12 October – Gary Bond, actor and singer
14 October – Edith Pargeter, writer
16 October – Richard Caldicot, actor
18 October
* Bryan Johnson, actor and singer
* Ted Whiteaway, racing driver
20 October – Eric Birley, archaeologist and historian
22 October
* Kingsley Amis, writer
* Ralph Whitlock, farmer, conservationist and author
23 October – Gavin Ewart, poet
24 October
* Marion Adnams, painter, printmaker and draughtswoman
* Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister
30 October
* Brian Easdale, composer
* Paul Ferris, composer ; suicide
31 October
* Alan Bush, composer, pianist and conductor
* Derek Enright, politician
* Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, peer

November

1 November
* Bill Hudson, Army officer in World War II
* Desmond Shawe-Taylor, music critic
3 November
* Wallas Eaton, actor
* John Orchard, actor
4 November
* Marti Caine, comedian and actress
* Paul Eddington, actor
7 November
* Andrea Adams, journalist and broadcaster
* Felicity Winifred Carter, author and playwright
9 November – F. G. Emmison, archivist and historian
12 November – Sir Robert Stephens, actor
14 November – Jack Holt, boat designer
15 November – Billy Hughes, educationist and politician
16 November
* Leah Betts, high-profile victim of the drug ecstasy
* Gwyn A. Williams, historian
18 November
* John G. Collier, chemical engineer
* Miron Grindea, literary journalist
20 November – Robin Gandy, mathematician
21 November
* Peter Grant, manager of the band Led Zeppelin
* Wilfred White, equestrian
22 November – Edna Deane, dancer and choreographer
24 November
* Malcolm Munthe, soldier, writer and curator
* Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, banker, Governor of the Bank of England
25 November – Alan Nicholls, English football goalkeeper
26 November
* Sydney D. Bailey, author and pacifist
* Charles Warrell, teacher and creator of the I-Spy books

December

3 December – Jimmy Jewel, actor
5 December
* Charles Evans, mountaineer
* Keith Runcorn, geophysicist
6 December – Trevor Key, photographer
7 December
* James Derek Birchall, chemist ; road accident
* Kathleen Harrison, actress
8 December – Philip Lawrence, school headteacher ; murdered
9 December
* Hugh Clegg, academic
* Benny Lee, actor
* Gillian Rose, philosopher and author
10 December
* Sir Godfrey Agnew, civil servant
* Mary Lascelles, literary scholar
* Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, noblewoman
11 December – Arthur Mullard, actor and singer
12 December – Sir David Lightbown, politician
14 December – Constance Tipper, metallurgist and crystallographer
17 December – Peter Warlock, magician
18 December – Brian Brockless, organist and composer
20 December – John Jacques, Baron Jacques, businessman and politician
21 December – Trenchard Cox, museum director
22 December
* David Land, impresario and theatre producer
* James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize laureate
23 December – Patric Knowles, actor
27 December – Jeremy John Beadle, critic, writer and broadcaster
29 December – Harold Collison, Baron Collison, trade unionist
31 December – David Anderson, politician, lawyer and judge